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Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Thanks to their tireless efforts, President Joe Biden signed S. 475, the “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act,” on June 17, 2021, declaring Juneteenth a legal public holiday.
The holiday—sometimes referred to as Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day—was deemed a federal holiday in 2021, with President Biden signing it into legislation on ...
(Reuters) - Juneteenth, a day that marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, is always observed on June 19 each year. It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a ...
In 2022, S.C. senators approved a bill giving state employees a choice of observing Confederate Memorial Day. According to a Greenville news story, the bill began as a proposal to add Juneteenth ...
Independence Day is the quintessential all-American holiday, but those annual Fourth of July celebrations don't hold the same significance for all Americans. That's where Juneteenth comes in. The ...
What is Juneteenth and why is it important? Find out the history and meaning behind the federal holiday, plus when and how you can celebrate.